George B.
Tingley

Candidate Biography:

Born: August 15, 1815 in Clermont County, OhioMarried.Children: Viola (who married James H. Lawrence twice)Died: August 3, 1862 in San Francisco, CA

1849: Speaker pro Tem, California State Assembly1850: Resigned from the State Assembly on September 25.1852: Candidate for Senate President Pro Tem (Lost; 1 to 12)1860s: Register of the U.S. Land Office in San Francisco

HISTORICAL NOTE: "At the start considerable dissatisfaction was felt in respect to the accommodation offered by the State House, and only four days after its first occupation, George B. Tingley, a member from Sacramento, introduced a bill to remove the Legislature to Monterey. It only passed its first reading and was then consigned to the purgatory of "further action." Source: History of Santa Clara County by J. P. Munro-Fraser (1881)

Tingley was the first State Senator to represent Contra Costa County after it's incorporation.

In 1851, Tingley became the first person to serve in both houses of the California Legislature and the first to go from the Assembly to the Senate.

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)